Monthly Archives: December 2006

chrismtas photos

Chritmas 2006 We had a great holiday in Scotland visiting Ruth’s mum. It was proper frosty! Hope you might enjoy some of the pictures I took while we were there. It was great to be reminded what a cold winter is like – as here in south west Ireland it’s unbelievably mild!
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Someone tell me how to make this stop…

I would like some suggestions on how I can help make this kind of thing (and all the other horrible things humans do behind lies and deceit) STOP.
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Using Ctrl + F

(or Command + F for Mac users). Many years of daily computer use often makes one forget that other’s don’t necessarily make the most of the electronic paradigm. Recently I’ve sat looking over the shoulders of friends and family as they slowly scroll through a long Word document or web page trying to find the [...]
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Energy Scenarios Ireland

Interesting website from FAESTA
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In praise of Roboform

The UN recently warned about the risk of identity theft for people who enter similar usernames and passwords across many websites. Many people I know have no idea how to create, store and reuse passwords. If you use Windows I highly recommend paying for Roboform which remembers your passwords, fills forms when you arrive at [...]
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PHP Markdown – new version

The excellent PHP Markdown (especially the Extra version) has just had a new release with some enhancements and many bug-fixes. I use this exclusively in Moodle and WordPress and try to encourage all clients and friends to use it too. So much better than ‘rich text’ editors (IMO). Writing Markdown can become second nature very [...]
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